| 单词 | to let off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto let off to let off ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] i-swikec893 swikec897 atwindc1000 linOE studegieOE stintc1175 letc1200 stuttea1225 leavec1225 astint1250 doc1300 finec1300 blina1325 cease1330 stable1377 resta1382 ho1390 to say or cry ho1390 resta1398 astartc1400 discontinuec1425 surcease1428 to let offc1450 resista1475 finish1490 to lay a straw?a1505 to give over1526 succease1551 to put (also pack) up one's pipes1556 end1557 to stay (one's own or another's) hand1560 stick1574 stay1576 to draw bridle1577 to draw rein1577 to set down one's rest1589 overgive1592 absist1614 subsista1639 beholdc1650 unbridle1653 to knock offa1657 acquiesce1659 to set (up) one's rest1663 sista1676 stop1689 to draw rein1725 subside1734 remit1765 to let up1787 to wind (up) one's pirna1835 to cry crack1888 to shut off1896 to pack in1906 to close down1921 to pack up1925 to sign off1929 c1450 (c1390) G. Chaucer Complaint of Venus 52 I so long haue been in youre servyce, Þat for to leet of wol I neuer assente. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 182 ‘Lete of’, he sayde, ‘no man be So hardy to do hym any harme’. 2. To discharge with an explosion. Hence figurative. To fire off (a joke, speech, etc.). to let off steam: see steam n. 7d. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > suddenly rap1541 squib1596 to let off1714 the world > matter > light > firework > [verb (transitive)] > let off to let off1714 fire1740 squib1892 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] loosec1400 fire1508 let1553 pop1595 report1605 unlade1611 to fire off1706 to let off1714 squib1811 to set off1881 to ease off1916 poop1917 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > use mines and explosives [verb (transitive)] > mine > explode a mine, etc. spring1625 vent1687 fire1699 to let off1714 to set off1881 bump1915 1714 London Gaz. No. 5271/2 The Firework..will be let off. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 44 Charging it [sc. my pistol] only with Powder..I let it off in the Air. 1741 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 25 July (1932) (modernized text) II. 461 If..instead of saying that tastes are different..you should let off a proverb, and say [etc.]. 1817 Brougham in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1873 An occasion for letting off his long meditated speech on that question. 1821 Examiner 509/2 He let off his puns with great dexterity. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) vi. 139 It reminds too much of letting off crackers in a cathedral. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxix. 160 I cannot bear people to keep their minds bottled up for the sake of letting them off with a pop. 3. To allow to go or escape; to excuse from punishment, service, etc. (Cf. 11b.) ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > be exempt from (a liability or obligation) [verb (transitive)] > free from obligation freeeOE unbind1297 quitclaima1325 acquit1340 excuse1340 loose1340 releasec1350 assoil1366 soilc1384 dischargea1387 quita1387 relieve1416 absoil1440 deliver1440 acquittance1448 quiet1450 acquiet1453 absolve?a1475 defease1475 skill1481 relax1511 redeema1513 exoner1533 exonerate1548 solvec1550 distask1592 disgage1594 upsolve1601 disoblige1603 disengage1611 to get off1623 exclude1632 supersedea1644 to let off1814 to let out1869 1814 J. Constable Let. 25 Oct. in Corr. (1964) II. 135 Mr. Roberson our curate was so polite as to ask me to dine with him as he had a party the other day, but I begged to be ‘let off’. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. xiii. 244 It will be a good thing over..and I shall have been let off easily. View more context for this quotation 1828 J. W. Croker Diary 4 Mar. in Croker Papers (1884) I. xiii. 409 The poor devil had no shirt, and was so humble and penitent that he let him off. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxii. 319 I will let Clavering off from that bargain. 1866 M. Oliphant Madonna Mary I. ii. 25 I am not able for any more. Let me off for today. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 322 Did you ever hear any one arguing that a murderer or any sort of evil-doer ought to be let off? 1890 Times 21 Mar. 3/6 He was let off with an admonition and four strokes with the birch rod. 4. To allow or cause to pass away. ΚΠ 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 21 Cocks..for letting off the sediment. 5. To lease in portions. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > hire or rent out [verb (transitive)] > let or lease land or house > in portions to let off1853 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House x. 92 A large house..is let off in sets of chambers. 1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 i. 157 He mowed some worth 3l. and let off the grass of other land at 2l. to let (a person) off b. to let (a person) off a penalty, etc. (Cf. let off at to let off 3 at Phrasal verbs.) ΚΠ 1885 Sir H. Cotton in Law Time Rep. LII. 336/2 The judge..only lets the man off imprisonment on the terms of his paying the costs. < as lemmas |
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